Mozambique: Another day with no Covid-19 deaths reported – AIM

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Mozambique: Another day with no Covid-19 deaths reported – AIM

6:48 CAT | 26 Apr 2021

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The Mozambican health authorities on Sunday announced another 24 hour period without any deaths from the Covid-19 respiratory disease.

Thus 11 out of the first 25 days of April have been free of Covid-19 deaths. The total death toll in Mozambique stands at 807.

According to a Ministry of Health press release, since the start of the pandemic, 512,219 people have been tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, 743 of them in the previous 24 hours. Well over half the samples tested came from the far south – 398 from Maputo city and 95 from Maputo province. There were also 137 samples from Inhambane, 93 from Sofala, 13 from Tete, four from Niassa, one from Manica and one from Cabo Delgado. No tests were reported from Nampula, Zambezia or Gaza

721 of the tests yielded negative results, and only 22 people tested positive for the coronavirus. All the new cases were Mozambican citizens. 16 were men and six were women. No cases were found among children. Three of those infected were over 65 years old.

Nine of the cases diagnosed on Sunday were from Maputo city, four from Maputo province, four from Inhambane, four from Sofala and one from Manica. There were no positive cases from the other six provinces.

Sunday’s cases gave a positivity rate (the proportion of those tested found to be infected) of three per cent. This compared with 3.3 per cent on Saturday, 4.9 per cent on Friday, 6.2 per cent on Thursday, and eight per cent on Wednesday.

Over the same 24 hour period, three Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospital (one in Maputo, one in Matola and one in Nampula), and four new cases were admitted (two in Maputo and two in Matola).

As of Sunday, 40 patients were under medical care in the Covid-19 treatment centres (a slight increase on the 39 people hospitalised on Saturday). 28 of the patients (70 per cent) were in Maputo, three in Nampula, three in Inhambane, and two each in Zambezia, Sofala and Matola. No Covid-19 patients were hospitalised in the other five provinces (Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Manica, Tete and Gaza).

The Ministry release also reported that a further 49 people were declared fully recovered from Covid-19 on Sunday (46 in Inhambane and three in Zambezia). The total number of recoveries now stands at 62,501, or 89.7 per cent of all those diagnosed with Covid-19 in Mozambique.

The number of active Covid-19 cases fell slightly to 6,353 (down from 6,380 on Saturday). The geographical distribution of these cases was as follows: Maputo city, 4,381 (69 per cent of the total); Maputo province, 797; Nampula, 318; Sofala, 301; Niassa, 168; Zambezia, 137: Inhambane, 95; Cabo Delgado, 65; Tete, 45; Gaza, 32; and Manica, 14.

Source: AIM